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Category: History of Ideas

Origin of Sin

Rachel Weisz, Esquire cover
Rachel Weisz, Esquire cover

The conception of sin has Babylonian – Magian – Persian origins. The Chaldæan theologians developed sin as a theologoumenon idea in order to answer their 11th century BCE question of theodicy: how to reconcile divine justice with the suffering of good people. Continue reading Origin of Sin

Posted on April 10, 2005December 2, 2016Author AwetCategories History of IdeasTags history, mythology, theology

Sex and Character

Blood of Fish by Gustav Klimt
Blood of Fish by Gustav Klimt

This is a spic and span summary of a tortured thinker who cast a long shadow in Vienna at the dawn of the 20th century. During those days of ironic prosperity in Austro-Hungary, Weininger identified the decay of modernity as the ‘triumph of pettiness over greatness.’ Continue reading Sex and Character

Posted on March 8, 2005December 2, 2016Author AwetCategories History of Ideas, PhilosophyTags feminine, Jew, masculine, psychology, Weininger

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